Daily Rhema: Overcoming adultery and fornication

Proverbs 7:21-22,24-25 GW
With all her seductive charms, she persuades him. With her smooth lips, she makes him give in. He immediately follows her like a steer on its way to be slaughtered, like a ram hobbling into captivity. Now, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words from my mouth. Do not let your heart be turned to her ways. Do not wander onto her path.

Adultery is committed when a married person has sex with anyone apart from their spouse.

Fornication is committed when an unmarried person has sex with anybody.

God permits sex only within the context of a marriage relationship.

Why does God forbid fornication and adultery?
When sexual intercourse takes place between a man and woman, a spiritual and physical union of their souls and bodies takes place.

This union of their souls and bodies causes a transmission of spiritual natures and forces between them.

When it is done in the will of God, the Holy Spirit transmits a greater measure of the love of God (the fruit of the spirit) and so unity and spiritual power between husband and wife (1Cor. 6:13-17).

How then do you overcome adultery and fornication, particularly in this day when it is so common?

Our minds are constantly being bombarded by Satan, with thoughts of sexual immorality from every available media: peer pressure, magazines, television and of course, the internet. Practically every form of advertisement is sexually suggestive.

Do not despair! You can overcome by the power of the Holy Spirit using the Word of God (2Cor. 7:1; 2Pt. 1:3-4; Rom. 8:5-13).

You use the written Word to set, or reprogram your mind to the things of the Spirit and not on things of the flesh or the sinful nature by reading, meditating and speaking the Word as a daily habit (Rom. 12:2).

Furthermore, abstain from all appearances of evil (1Th. 5.22): immoral books, films, etc. and sexually compromising situations and circumstances, like Joseph did when he fled from Potiphar’s wife (Gen. 39:7-13).

As you pray in the Spirit, in tongues, the Holy Spirit releases His power into your physical body that puts to death carnal desires contrary to the will of God. In a sense, He puts a ‘spiritual anesthetic’ into your body that causes you not to respond to sinful stimuli.

As you do this, you will both avoid (by the Holy Spirit supernaturally manipulating men and circumstances), and when confronted with it even at the thought level, overcome adultery and fornication.

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